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Simple Gluten Free Vegan Pie Crust

by Robyn McElwee in Gluten Free Recipes February 6, 2023

Yum Yum and Yum again. This is a very simple, easy, gluten free pie crust that is delicious! I mainly use this recipe for a savory mouth watering from scratch chicken pot pie. But I’ve also used this recipe for actual pie crust.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cup all purpose gf flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 8 tbsp lard [or butter, myikos, coconut oil]
• 4-6 tbsp ice cold water

Instructions:

1. Ensure all ingredients are ice cold – almost frozen butter/lard
2. Add gf flour, salt, and lard to bowl. Blend it all together using a pastry cutter, fork, or your hands. You want a coarse dough with small chunks of butter
3. Add 4 tbsp water slowly. Increase by 1 tbsp at a time if dough is too dry. I don’t recommend going over 6 tbsp
4. Shape dough into a disk
5. Wrap in Saran Wrap and chill for 2 hours up to 2 days
6. Take out 5 – 10 minutes before you are ready to use it
7. On a clean counter, put down parchment paper. Lightly dust with flour. Begin to roll out crust. *If using for pie crust, move on to next step***
8. Lightly four pie dish (I use cast iron), Move parchment paper with pie dough over the pie dish and invert into baking dish. Smooth out edges and reform with fingers if needed. Ensure pie crust covers pie dish.
9. Prick bottom with fork, add parchment paper on top, place pie weight on top parchment paper. Prebake according to pie directions.

***If using for Chicken Pot Pie***

I make multiple individual chicken pot pies. In my case I double the recipe for 8 individual dishes. I evenly separate the pie dough into 8 equal parts. I roll it out. Then place it on top my fully cooked filled chicken pot pie dishes. I pinch the crust around the edges. I cut 3 x marks in each raw pie dough after I put it on the chicken pot pie dish. I brush the dough with egg whites mixed with bacon grease or egg whites mixed with lard/butter [if vegan, brush lightly with coconut oil or alike]. Then I bake until the crust is golden. I do precook everything in the chicken pot pie before I top with the raw pie crust and bake to finish it.